Costco's same-store sales rise 6% in August

BillClifford

Costco Wholesale, the Issaquah, Wash.-based discount warehouse chain, said Wednesday that sales at stores open at least a year rose 6 percent in August from a year ago. Overall, Costco's net sales in the four weeks to Sept. 1 increased 10 percent on year to $3.01 billion. For the the fiscal year ended Sept. 1, net sales rose 11 percent to $37.98 billion. Costco
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operates 394 warehouses in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., South Korea, Taiwan, Japan and Mexico.

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